Posts by phuzz 6735 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Feb 2010
It's not that crass and insensitive, and certainly not unbelievably* so. An actually crass comment would be pointing out that now they can sell tours to view the wreck of the Titanic and the Titan.
* really, if you thought that comment was 'unbelievably crass', you should probably stay well away from most comment threads on the internet for your own mental health.
Your laptop has a PERC 4 RAID card? How many SCSI drives does it fit?
When people are talking about reusing 'old' laptops, they're typically talking about something that still has some battery life left. So realistically, less than ten years old.
No one said he shouldn't have classified information when he was in office. It was the part where he lost the election and wasn't in office any more, and deliberately took boxes and boxes of classified documents. Then when he was asked to return them, he repeated lied and tried to hide them.
That's the part that he's on trial for.
Of course, it is somewhat true that he's still not being held according the the same standards as other people. Trump has been allowed out on bail, if he was held to the same standards as eg Reality Winner he'd be in jail awaiting trial right now.
The idea that it might be worth updating laws every few centuries doesn't seem to have reached the US yet. They're legal system was indeed very shiny two hundred years ago, but it could do with a bit of a freshen up by now. Maybe drag it kicking and screaming into the 20th century?
Breaking the speed of sound and landing the aircraft is the key part. Piston engined aircraft like the Spitfire and Mustang could reach the speed of sound in a dive, but they would be dangerously out of control if/when they did.
(Not that they'd know how fast they were going, a simple airspeed indicator isn't useable once you go that fast)
“Our sires’ age was worse than our grandsires’. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.”
Horace circa 23 BCE
Older generations have been complaining about "the youth of today" for millennia. It's ok, they'll be dead sooner ;)
It is possible for a business to make a profit, and not be terrible, but generally the business has to start out with that in mind.
Reddit is similar to a lot of other VC-funded companies, where someone came up with an initial idea, managed to sell that idea to venture capitalists, and got millions in funding. They then use that funding to pursue Growth™ above anything else, with no thought being paid to revenue, or budgets, or any of that boring business stuff.
The idea is that once you've attracted your millions of users, you pivot to charging them money and start making a profit. Not many companies manage to successfully make this transition though, because when they try and charge customers for things that used to be free/cheap, most of the customers just jump ship for the next VC-subsidised company.
Seems like an odd thing for a US government official to say. Surely if the Bad Guys™ are getting drones, that just provides more opportunities for Boeing/BAE/Lockheed etc. to sell anti-drone missiles or whatever. After all, enhancing shareholder value for 'defence' companies, is pretty much the raison d'etre of the US government right?
Depending on what you're doing for your storage, you can probably add an SSD cache to your spinning rust at the OS level.
I was doing it via Windows Storage Spaces*, but these days I have a seperate NAS running unRAID, with a couple of 512GB SSDs as a write cache. IIRC ZFS can do something similar.
(* SSD caching in Storage Spaces isn't avaliable via the UI in consumer versions of Windows, but you can still set it up via PowerShell)
I've had my share of nervous moments rebooting servers that are physically a long way away from me, but that can't compare to what it must have been like for the NASA engineers to have to upload a flight plan, and hope that their little 'coptor could take off and land somewhere with better receipion, all by itself. That must have been terrifying!
several of these for all involved >>>>>>>>>
Many PAT checkers are paid per device, so they try and test everything they can find. Once my old boss was daft enough to let one into our server room (which was also the store room), and I had to physically restrain him from unplugging the servers to test them.
Plus, PAT stands for "Portable Appliance Testing", the whole point is testing things like laptop chargers, which are regularly moved around, and might end up having damaged cables etc. over time. You don't need to test devices that are plugged in once and never move for years.
I once had sort of the opposite problem:
I was a a clients office, fixing various desktop issues, and I was asked to fix something (email related?) for a particular user, who wasn't at their desk. I sat down and started to troubleshoot, but there was something wrong with the mouse. I flipped it over and found someone had taped a two pence coin to the bottom. Once I'd removed that it worked fine, and I got to work fixing whatever the problem was.
After a bit the user came back into the office, phone practically glued to their ear. Once they'd got off the phone, I showed them the fixed computer, and mentioned that I'd had to remove the 2p and they replied: "I stuck that there, it's to protect me from the electromagnetic radiation".
As I was at a clients office, I restrained myself from going full BOFH, and just said "Have you tried closing your window blinds?" and left.
After all, the sun really is a source of harmful EM radiation, as anyone who's had sun-burn can attest.
If you claimed your bridge used AI in some way, then I'm sure the cash would come flooding in.
Storing it on some enterprise grade whatsit would be great and all, but they could have avoided this problem by storing them on a $5 USB stick as long as it wasn't plugged into anything.
That tiny security step would have made them basically impregnable to any non-physical attacker.
Just keep them in a drawer, and only plug it in when you actually need to sign something. How hard can it be?
You know that, because you actually know SQL. The people applying for these jobs presumably don't know the first thing about SQL, databases, or anything connected to the job. They were just hoping that they could get a chatbot to do the job for them.
1. Use chatbot to apply for job
2. ???
3. Profit!
Most companies treat it as "you can have this many days off to illness before we start to ask questions".
Mind you, my first boss had grown up in New Zealand and told me about the concept of "duvet days". That's when you really want to pull a sickie, but instead of lying to your employer, you just tell them you're having a duvet day, and stay at home.
It's within 72 hours, and it's "where feasible":
In the case of a personal data breach, the controller shall without undue delay and, where feasible, not later than 72 hours after having become aware of it, notify the personal data breach to the supervisory authority competent in accordance with Article 55, unless the personal data breach is unlikely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons.Where the notification to the supervisory authority is not made within 72 hours, it shall be accompanied by reasons for the delay.
(src)
They'll weasel out if it by saying they wanted to be "sure" that particular details were leaked. So you should expect them to notify you (well, the ICO) about 71 hours after your details are spaffed all over the internet.
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2024
